Posts Tagged ‘self help’

Magical Thinking Can Kill You: 2 Dead, 19 Hospitalized After Paying $9,933 for Seminar

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Beliefs, Influence, Media, Movies, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Spin | Oct 13, 2009 | Tags: back end marketing, back of the room marketing, bob tzu, death, duhism, get rich quick, get rich seminars, jack canfield, james arthur ray, law of attraction, magical thinking, michael beckwith, rhonda byrne, self help, self help book, self help guru, self help seminars, seminars, shelf help, sweat lodge, t harv eker, the secret | 7 Comments

Magical thinking can kill you. Now it’s been proven. After James Arthur Ray, self proclaimed ‘self help expert’ and one of the stars of the book and movie The Secret charged 70 participants $9,933 each to attend a sweat lodge event, two died, 19 went to the hospital and the ‘law of attraction‘ will never ...Read more.

The Natural Power and Beauty of Your Influence

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Beliefs, Psychology, Social Media, Spin, Videos | Dec 26, 2008 | Tags: attitude, give, happy, holiday, holidays, Influence, joy, self help, twitter | No Comments

Influence is all around us and most of us are blind to it. Hence, the title of this blog. In reflecting on this I was amazed to see how far reaching influence is in our lives. With the boom in social media this is becoming more and more obvious as people who were “nobodies” yesterday ...Read more.

Are you Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired? Stop It!

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Beliefs, Psychology, Videos | Oct 27, 2008 | Tags: bob newhart, personal development, psychotherapy, self help, stop it, therapy | No Comments

I love this Bob Newhart skit. As a person who’s been through therapy and has a masters degree in psychology I wish someone would have used this amazing psychological breakthrough with me decades ago. No matter what you’re not happy with in you’re life this transformational technology will change your life forever! Guaranteed!

If it Bleeds it Leads – Why do People Love Bad News?

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Advertising, Books, Consumerism, Media, Psychology, Spin | Oct 17, 2008 | Tags: 9/11, crime, crime decline, current events, economic crisis, economy, fear, fear in marketing, fear mongering, financial crisis, financial news, global economy, Media, news, power of fear, scare tactics, self help, self help gurus, television news, terror, terrorism, terrorisy, wall street | No Comments

Have you watched your local nightly news lately? Probably not if you’re like most Americans under the age of 61, but you’ll still get my point. I’m guessing you’ve watched more financial news in the last month than usual in reaction to fear around money, stocks and the economy in general. I accidentally saw the ...Read more.

The Secret of How to Get Rich Quick! …Really

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Books, Consumerism, Marketing, Money, Psychology, Videos | Oct 10, 2008 | Tags: byron katie, cons, gabe and max's internet thing, get rich quick, infomercial, internet marketing, Money, personal development, scams, scheme, self help, shelf help, the secret, tony robbins | No Comments

The secret to getting rich quick is to not spend your hard earned money and valuable time on schemes that experts are selling you to teach you how to get rich quick. The truth is that if they were rich from their actions they wouldn’t be wasting their time on stages and teleseminars pitching you ...Read more.